Stranger Things (Netflix) TV Show • Page 103

When you can binge a whole season in a couple days, unless you really love it then chances are you aren’t going to rewatch the whole thing again any time soon. At least, that’s certainly what happens to me. And as a result in a few weeks I’ll forget good chunks of a season (off the top of my head I couldn’t tell you much of anything that happened in the last season of Bojack), let alone the small details that can make you really appreciate a show. The traditional week-long wait lets you sit on an episode and think about it as it relates to the whole.

 

Slowly working my way through the season (just finished E5) and wow, this is way more intense/violent than the first two seasons so far lol

 

I very rarely watch shows weekly, much prefer being able to go straight into the next episode if that's what I want to do.

 

You could always not binge and wait a week to watch the next episode

 

I'm re-watching again from the start and actually watching one episode each day or two (and as good as 3 was i'm still confident 1 is the best season). The way everything builds and builds from episode to episode is phenomenal, and I definitely agree that if they released the episodes week-by-week the hype around it would have been even more intense.

 

I tend to lose track of shows week-to-week (God Friended Me just completely dropped of the radar mid-season and I still haven't gotten around to catching up on that series) wheras streaming gives me ths opportunity to watch them all at my own pace.

 

I agree that with binging, we have lost some of the most fun aspects of the television experience, which is talking with friends, family, co-workers, online members about theories, thoughts, reactions, etc. IMDB discontinued them, but back in the day I used to live for those IMDB message boards for TV shows and reading what everyone was thinking and buying into new ideas and theories or proposing my own.

I remember the first show I ever binged was the original Twin Peaks back when I was in college (before binging was really a thing) and I remember loving the show but it kind of sucked that I couldn't look anything up in between episodes because obviously 20 years later at that point, there were spoilers everywhere. That's kind of how it is now, like watching Stranger Things S3 3 days after it started, I was afraid to look anything up about it because the conversation was already about the entire big picture.

All that said, we've become so accustomed to binging that now waiting week to week for shows like Barry, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, etc, feels like an eternity to get through a season and for many shows (i.e. The Walking Dead) when there's a bad episode or a slow episode, it just kills the momentum for the entire season/series. There's shows that I've dropped because I've had to wait week to week (Preacher, Legion) that otherwise I probably would have watched straight through if I could have binged them.

 

But what’s the point because everyone else binged it so no one is going to be talking about it still when I’m on episode 5 or 6.

 

You can't have your cake and eat it too, as they say

 

We’re still talking here anyway, so just watch how you want and then bump the thread for every episode specifically.

 

I dug this a lot. his voice is like Pink Floyd-era Syd Barrett. awesome surprise

 

Loved the season though I did find it a little bizarre that they upped the cursing for S3, the majority of which being women getting called bitch. I feel like it was at least 5 times, And one of those was in German.

 

Guys the 1986 world event theyre referencing is obviously the mets winning the world series

 

My wife finished it before me because of our schedules we had no time to really binge it together and all she said when she finished was that she loved it and she cried and my initial thoughts immediately were “fuck steves gonna die isnt he” and i was expecting it the whole time.

I just finished it - hopper didnt make me sad at first but then my eyes got damp when El was reading the letter but hes definitely alive so it was short lived emotion.

This show is visually amazing. Even something as simple as the mall scenes were so vibrant and captivating.

 

Nobody:
Literally nobody :
Not even the "" Mindflayer"":
Netflix : let's make memes on our own content

Comments on this vid are gold

 

I really enjoyed this in the moment, but looking back I feel like it had a really awkward weight distribution. Like, all the character threads that develop in the first few episodes are just cut off and ignored until the end because too much shit just starts happening and everyone's all spread out.

 

Oh, oh no. It’s time for me to leave.

 

Holy shit... as someone who pretends to be a photographer I am offended

 

Oh no I feel old

 

This puts the fact that those awful Chernobyl theories keep gaining traction into a much clearer perspective.

 

Finished it. I have a lot of thoughts because I’ve waited so long to finish it and talk about it:

-Not sure where it ranks with the first two but I’ve just accepted that I’m gonna love anything this show throws at me...this was so good.

-Maya Hawke absolutely captivated me and the bathroom scene with Robin and Steve was one of the best of the series...it also propelled Steve even higher up in my favorite characters.

-I actually found this less scary than S2...definitely gnarlier and gorier in ways, but nothing gave me chills like the stuff with Will last season. The broader threat actually depersonalized some of the terror and the more overt horror movie feel made the scares feel predictable. The show has yet to top the shock of Will convulsing out of nowhere for me, although the sauna scene and watching people turn into goo one by one definitely unnerved me.

-Still all-in-all the most intense season from a violence and action standpoint. THAT scene with Eleven’s leg was crazy.

-Speaking of Will, he was severely underutilized this season. I can understand him getting a break this season, but I hope he has a huge role in S4. Noah Schnapp is the best of the kid actors (besides maybe Millie) and I feel like Will is the soul of the show. The Castle Byers scene wrecked me.

-Jonathan remains the most one-note character, but Nancy really grew this season. Super underrated character. Also, terrific character development with her and Mrs. Wheeler when they finally got the heart to heart that’s been coming for two seasons.

-Show continues to nail its endings. I don’t know how they do it. I didn’t expect to cry as hard as I did but I was a mess.

-The Neverending Story scene rivals the bathroom scene as the best of the season for me. Amazing. The Suzie reveal was perfect and I adore that shot of everyone in the car looking confused while the monster is still chasing them. It’s the show’s balance of dark and light that makes it one of my favorites ever and that scene just sums it up.

Love this show.

 

Me rn re: the red room tweet: